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After Harry Reid, the GOP Shouldn’t Unilaterally Disarm

It will take years to undo the damage done by Senate Democrats’ barring filibusters of judicial nominees.

By

Orrin G. Hatch And

C. Boyden Gray

Nov. 5, 2014 7:14 p.m. ET

After the 2006 midterm elections delivered control of the Senate to the Democratic Party, incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared that it was “time for bipartisanship, it’s time for open government, transparency, and it’s a time for results.” Eight years later, we know all too well what those “results” turned out to be—and they did not include bipartisanship, openness or transparency. The Democratic Party’s opaque, aggressively unilateral approach to government spurred voters to return the Senate to Republican control...